johnny_and1

I've eaten pierogi in Germany, Poland, Ukraine, and Russia, and the diversity and breadth of the dish makes them totally different than what you can find in Romania. I would say that colțunași are a subset of pierogi, since they're only filled with fresh cottage cheese filling and served only with sourcream (smântână). Also, I've encountered them only in the northern part of the country and nowhere else. So, I wouldn't say that we eat the same dish in Romania. Please let me know if you have found them in other parts of the country.

Just a comment from someone living around Köln, those are not true kölsch beers since they cannot see the Kölner Dom from their brewery.

I find it quite fascinating that americans like kölsch. The first time, and only time, I saw kölsch outside of Germany was in Mountain View at some beer auction style tap bar in 2016. It was quite popular since it had a high price. I might assume it was due to the similarity with local/large batch beer.

I feel like this is similar with Facebook "making it rain" whenever you send money through their messenger. It does not matter why you send the money, they always celebrate. Very distasteful and not taking into consideration the real reason. They presented this feature at MobileHCI'17 as part of their "Delight" mantra. They don't care about 100% accuracy, as long as it works for the majority, they will not cater to the minority.

In my opinion, psychoinformatics is just that. Now we have better tools for data collection and analysis plus outside knowledge from computer science. When we talk to psychologists, they have ideas that have been there for a long time but they did not know how to actually run these experiments. We bring a large scale view into their field. They are usually overwhelmed and we need to guide them extensively. (I've had to specifically craft dataframes into SPSS data file formats in a specific order for them to actually be able to work with.)

You'll see that definitions have evolved over time. Each new wave has a new vision based on the latest research trends and tools.

Yes, you did. I was just providing an example. Thank you!

Using psychology on data collected 24/7 can also have a positive effect. We (researchers from the Menthal project + psychologists) are planning to run this project in the following months: http://www.pi.uni-tuebingen.de/arbeitsbereiche/klinische-psy...

Extra info here: https://www.startnext.com/whatsapp-against-depression

We plan to detect early signs of depression in children and teenagers.

(I'm sorry that everything is in German.)

If you want to find out more about the project that sparked this paper you can find it here https://menthal.org/

I'm one of the researchers that works on the project.

I thought that all travelling couples did this. I compare it with being allowed to change the door that you can open on a TV show. The costs of choosing two side-by-side seats are greater than choosing just one seat, except for the extra room row. It also depends a bit on the length of the flight. Longer flights make you pay more for choosing a seat.

The problem is not informing the user that you use SDKs from third party providers, although using them for login services (Facebook, Google+, twitter) or tracking (Crashlytics, Microsoft App Insights). The other problem is not knowing exactly what these SDKs can collect. They basically have the same permissions as the apps that include them. Crashlytics will collect and send location data alongside bug reports if the crashed app has this permission. (Source: Study on the most popular 200 apps in Germany done on real network traffic. We don't know if the study will be available for the public.)

We are currently pushing for legislation changes in Europe. Users should be informed about SDKs and data destination. Europe has 3 main data sinkholes, Ireland (EU data centres for US companies), Netherlands (Akamai) and Germany (probably selection bias). Nobody knows where the data ends up afterwards and under which legislation it falls.

I wouldn't use Crashlytics. I use ACRA (https://github.com/ACRA/acra) for a project that has around 30k active installs.

I also wouldn't use Crashlytics due to a study that we've conducted in the last 3 months on 200 of the most used apps in Germany. We have collected real network traffic with a setup consisting of Wireshark and sslsplit (https://github.com/droe/sslsplit). We have discovered that Crashlytics will send GPS location data alongside bug reports. Probably it tries to collect as much data as possible.

Initial sample size was 21k users but we've reduced it to the people that filled some questionnaire regarding demographics and personality traits. To which parameters are you referring?

It just increased general phone usage by ~16% per day. Daily path length stayed the same. (Source: study on 2800 phone users that played Pokemon GO. Data collected for at least 4 weeks having the first gaming session in the middle. Data was collected through an app that monitors your phone usage, no self-reported data. Will be presented at MobileHCI '17)

Search for WritheM on Spotify. I was in the same boat until I got the playlist from their wiki and loaded it into Spotify.